they are free under current law to speak close to an election which was restricted under mccain fine gold and was wiped out under the supreme court. that is not always bad in the same way that when michael moore speaks, he speaks through the mere an height corporation to make 911. >> the value is that they are speaking about something they have deep knowledge, because it is about themselves. >> absolutely. i support and on record for public financing and the fair elections now bill in the senate. when we go a step further beyond public financing, this is a good example where more speech is good for the political process. >> it fact checks romney in this case. >> there was nothing that wouldn't have allowed sergio marchiaonni to issue a statement. >> if they wanted to do anything like run a full page ad, which corporations have done, if they felt that because they were being attacked on tv, they wanted to respond on tv, they are free to do that. >> they are not doing that. >> he ran the op ed in the paper, right? if he wanted to buy that space, that's a very fine grain distinction. my